the guugu yimithirr rely on cardinal directions..they would warn you to 'look out for that big ant just north of your foot.'

a speaker of tzeltal from southern mexico was blindfolded and spun around more than 20 times in a darkened house. still blindfolded and dizzy, he pointed without hesitation at the geographic directions.

they asked a group of men whether or not they had been circumcised. the men were then examined by a physician. of the 56 men who stated they were circumcised, 19, or 33.9%, were found to be uncircumcised. of the 136 men who stated they were not circumcised, 47, or 34.6% were found to be circumcised. these data demonstrate that the findings from studies using interview data may not always be clear-cut.

watched a face in the crowd, andy griffith's amazing b&w movie about the eruption of power in america.

read this eye-opening article about labor unrest in the developing world - bangladeshi garment workers are fighting to increase their $43 monthly pay. this is why i consider constant travel vital, lest we forget the struggles of those we share this earth with.

providers started acquiring providers..hospitals bought clinics..medical groups merged with one another..a strategic response to the growing negotiating power of local health plans.

the public wants unlimited care

kaiser permanente of ohio has reduced chf death rates to less than half of the state average.

..he had some decent criticisms ..of our absence of standards -

we simply expect millions of independent, overworked caregivers to all somehow 'do it right'.

..of the media -

improving the safety and consistency of care..will not happen as long as the press ignores statistical quality reports and instead politicizes a subset of photogenic, anecdote-based quality issues.

- but he mentioned long waits in single-payer systems, without ever touching the term 'life expectancy' (bosnia and puerto rico have us beat, for fuck's sake) -

in britain, the government spends $1,763 in tax dollars per person per year..our government already directly spends $2,218 per person..for just the old, the poor, the disabled, and the governmentally employed.

- and he kept using the term 'medical miracles' while only briefly touching the bigger (..fatter) problem.

we significantly underpay for prevention and for managing outcomes.

think that at the point you're using robots with lasers to perform octuple-bypass surgical miracles on 400 lb. fifty year olds, the medical system has already failed. by devoting only one chapter to prevention, so has this book.

"ever since physics first penetrated the atom..it has literally been called into question..whether or not there are always objective matters of fact about the whereabouts of subatomic particles, or about the locations of tables and chairs."